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Hollowness Quotes

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

Philip Hensher
Thinking, Hollowness, Novel
"Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

John Zerzan
People, Violence, Hollowness
"'We don't know what's going to happen. If we say we're doomed, we are, full stop.' A Q&A with John Zerzan and Zander Sherman". logger.believermag.com. December 4, 2015.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Mason Cooley
Success, Silent, Hollowness

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

Jed Rubenfeld
Dying, Want, Hollowness
Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

Charlotte Bronte
Want, Hollowness, Given
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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